Beleaguered Rep. Weiner Endures Prolonged Twitter Scandal

With the proliferation of social media outlets, there are that many more new ways for politicians to create PR disasters for themselves. Take, for example, the object lesson provided by Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose unidentified crotchy Twitpic scandal predictably dominated the week’s news cycle—and his strategy for dealing with it didn’t exactly help, either.  —KA

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